NASA Names Schmidt Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, gets honorary lunch ticket to Tom’s Restaurant.
NASA has named Gavin A. Schmidt to head the agency’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, a leading Earth climate research laboratory. Currently deputy director of the institute, Schmidt steps into the position left vacant after the retirement of long-time director James E. Hansen and becomes only the third person to hold the post.
“Gavin is a highly respected climate scientist who already also has proven himself as a terrific leader of the GISS team,” said NASA’s Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan. “He is the perfect candidate to continue leading this vital research institute at a critical time for the U.S. and the world.”
Schmidt, an expert in climate modeling, began his career at GISS in 1996. His primary area of research is the simulation of past, present and future climates. He has worked on developing and improving computer models that integrate ocean, atmosphere, and land processes to simulate Earth’s climate, and is particularly interested in how their results can be compared to paleoclimatic data.
“It’s an honor to lead the team of talented scientists at GISS,” he said. “The work being done here has implications for societies across the planet, and I will strive to make that research as valuable as possible.”
Schmidt received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Oxford University in 1988 and a doctorate in applied mathematics from University College London in 1994. He came to New York as a 1996 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change Research.
In addition to more than 100 published, peer-reviewed articles, he is the co-author of “Climate Change: Picturing the Science” (W.W. Norton, 2009), a collaboration between climate scientists and photographers. In 2011, he was awarded the American Geophysical Union Climate Communications Prize.
GISS was founded in 1961 as NASA’s theoretical division for work on planetary atmospheres, under the direction of Robert Jastrow, and is today a leading Earth climate research laboratory. Major areas of GISS research include measurements, remote sensing and simulation of Earth’s climate, the forces driving climate change and its impacts on human society, agriculture and ecosystems and continuing work on planetary climates in the solar system and beyond. GISS works closely with partners at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and with the Earth Institute and School of Engineering at Columbia University.
NASA’s Earth science program monitors the planet’s vital signs from land, air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth’s interconnected natural systems with long-term data records and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community and works with institutions in the United States and around the world that contribute to understanding and protecting our home planet.
For more information about Schmidt’s research and publications, visit: www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/gschmidt/
Source: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20140609/
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Well we’ll see if he can resist the temptation again if temps are still flat after another three to five years.
No need to warm the present when you can bump the trend by cooling the past. Plus there are fewer witnesses to dispute The Coldening.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/thirteen-years-of-nasa-data-tampering-in-six-seconds/
Did anyone see the puff of carbon free smoke from the chimney to say the church had a new leader?
Any chance to suggest we can suggest a vow of celibacy to bring an end to this mad progression? After all, many of these greenies are lured to the dark side by a vision of foxy young things, flush with idealism and attempting to pull up a wetsuit, completely unaware of the vicious prune faced vegans that inhabit the monastries, having undertaken a vow of abuse and who will actually guide the course of their beliefs.
– Mike Mann – Eric Steig – William Connolley – Stefan Rahmstorf – Ray Bradley – Amy Clement – Rasmus Benestad – William Connolley – Caspar Ammann.
The names are very familiar to people who have followed climate and engaged in questioning the anthropogenic warming theory (AGW) in any way. The evasiveness pervading the behavior recorded in the CRU emails was present at RealClimate and beyond. Note that William Connolley is listed twice – a Freudian slip because he was the most aggressive and did more than double duty through his own web page under an assumed name.
The above is the original roster of the CLIMATE AGNOTOLOGY HALL OF INFAMY.
Dagnabbit! William Connolley is mentioned. Where is my spittoon?
Gavin is a highly respected climate scientist
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Until he changed the IPCC brief to say that there was a human finger print on the climate!!!
What ever happened to the allegations that Hansen had accepted more than $1M in undeclared cash (in the form of science “prizes”) from environmental advocacy groups — presumably for reaching conclusions that the advocacy group liked? Last I remember someone (ATI or someone) had FOIAed NASA to get the disclosure statements and NASA said they did not hold them — leading to the allegation that Hansen never disclosed the cash as required by law. Did this go anywhere?
I imagine that Gavin will now start to receive a similar flood of cash from advocacy groups to encourage him to reach only the “correct” conclusions. And if NASA has chosen to selectively enforce the disclosure laws — well, its good to be king isn’t it.
Bob Tisdale says: at 12:31
Bob,
I’ve also noticed some folks seem not to know what “extratropical North Pacific” indicates. You may have to add something to your comments such as:
North of Hawaii’s “Big Island”
The Schmidt fits the han(sen).
Who does the selecting?
and becomes only the third person, and hopefully, the last to hold the post.
Anyone ever see Gavin and Michael Mann in the same room?
Gavin?! Wow… It really IS worse than we thought.
A nasty little bully of a man.
I wonder how he treats his minions?
rogerknights says:June 9, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Is that in response to: ‘If the Schmidt don’t fit, you must acquit?’
Doh!
If he is going to be the new Hansen, he should start telling us about his grandchildren, he should get a big floppy hat, and he should start being arrested. Who is going to be the new Gavin Schmidt?
ossqss says:
June 9, 2014 at 10:53 am
As soon a Gavin came on that video with Stossel and made the “40%” increase in CO2 statement I had to stop listening. That was our old friend R. Gates’ favorite BS quote.
Hey Gavin, you should know 40% of squat is still squat!
Such a terrible choice. Most bosses want a manager who will lead their departments, breathe new life into existing programs, initiate new programs to build upon the latest technology, inspire their employees through their personal example and build employee pride throughout their organization.
Condoned if not participated in adjusting historical temperatures to match confirmation bias. Certainly not new life in old programs.
Gavin is an expert in climate modeling… Leader and developer of archaic code monsters that fail to legitimately model temperatures. So much for initiating new programs to build upon latest technology.
Gavin is highly respected… Gavin is mastermind of a climate misrepresentation web site. He refuses to respectfully acknowledge peers and instead spurns their handshakes and face to face discussions. Gavin is also on record in the climategate emails. So much for inspire employees by example; employee ideas about possible flattery by imitation makes me nervous.
I wonder how many employees will now mumble their employer organization hoping that people will not associate them with Gavin and his predecessor.
I really do regret that Judith Curry didn’t get the job offer.
Congratulation Dr. Schmidt, there are probably tens of thousands scientists who are better qualified and who can actually manage, inspire and truly lead GISS into a brighter future that truly benefits civilization. Shame leadership of GISS went to someone who acts and supports eco-terrorists as if mankind must regress to a life without conveniences, food, shelter, warmth or even fire; except for the unelected privileged few.
“…….and is particularly interested in how their results can be compared to paleoclimatic data..”
Yeah! I’m interested in that myself. It would, after all, be the only way to prove the models. A proof spectacularly lacking to date, Not that it would prove the predictive capability of the models….
Gavin – let us know when you have some results to display.
Congratulation to Dr Gavin Schmidt on his long awaited promotion to the head of the looney-tunes part of NASA. He had to put up with the Hansen crap for many years, and the sad thing is that Schmidt will never be able to get rid of the smell of rotten science.
Schmidt needs to do a lot of work to correct the wrongs that Hasen perpetrated on science during his tenure. Certainly, Schmidt understands his duty is not to the UN IPCC but to the US taxpayer from whom Schmidt’s makes his living.
Make us proud, Gavin.
I was watching in 1969 and I was damn proud. Even though I am not a US citizen. I was proud for humanity and for progress
and I am watching now, and I am ashamed, for the same reasons
Schmidt. A complete joke. He’s been around talking bollocks for 15 years or more. Same old.
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To paraphrase the TV show Dragnet, “The names have been changed but the guilty are…”
From the article:
“Schmidt, an expert in climate modeling, began his career at GISS in 1996.”
Should read:
Schmidt, an expert in FAILED climate modeling, began his career at GISS in 1996.
There is a team of talented scientists at GISS?? Where have they all been hiding, all these years?? /sarc
Has Schmidt written any noteworthy papers ?
(… I mean realscience, not the hockey stick crap …)